The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| Mrs. J. A. LOGAN has sold the Logan home
stead in Chicago for 500
H. RIDER HAGGARD is said to have two more
literary monstrosities in course of construc-
ton.
Mr.. GLADSTONE still keeps in his library a
bust of Lord Beaconsfeld and a medallion of
Mr.. Bright.
ARKANsAw Traveller: Nashville Preacher TAD
dressing deacon)-Are there any opera singers
in the congregation? Deacon-I think not sir
Preacher-Then Ill proceed to denounce the
stage.
DAVID CRoNK, President Cleveland's Adiron-
dack guide, has left the woods for the first time
in years, and recently called DIR Ward, in
Albany. He is in New York now, and needs a
guide himself
PERHAPS the most lucrative office in the ma
ttiona1 government, next to the Presidency itself
is the clerkship of the Supreme Court at Wash
ington. It yields annual income in fees of
from $25, 900 to $40, 900.
CHARLES DICKENS was presented to a man in
Boston few days ago who opened the CONVEX
sation by the graceful remark that the son of the
famous novelist is not the man his father was.
The conversation ended just there.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE, who presided at
the dedication of the statue to Left Erikson, in
Boston, is said to have been better representa-
tive of the Viking than the statue, he stood
on the platform, his shaggy beard and hair
shaken by the wind.
SUNDAY last Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks cele-
brated the eighteenth anniversary of his rector
ship of Trinity Church, Boston. During this
long passionate he has had many calls to other
fields and has been offered more than one bish-
opric, but has remained loyal to his Boston par
iSh.
S. D. HOPKINS, who told the lie about the in
ferna1 machine sent to Chiefjustice Waite. is
now said to have been the author of the story
the seaside resorts. There is no telling what
will come to when he yields to the tempta-
ton of fish stories.
IT is said that the art exhibition at Venice has
closed with a deficit of 200 900 francs. The
painters have done but a bad business, for very
few pictures have been sold. Exhibitors seem
not to have Jared much better at the Milan
Brera. Three days before the closing of the ex-
hibition only eighteen works of art had been
sold
A CARRIER pigeon sent from Cortlandt street
in New York city, alighted the other day ON the
window of shop in Spencer, Mass. Under the
birds wing paper with this written on it:
''Give me and water to drink and battle in,
and let CO." The owner of the store did as
requested and the pigeon, much refreshed, flew
away.
TIE name of Fernando Wood, once familiar
in Washington, has been revived in that city by
the receipt of letter addressed to him at
one or the Leading notes. NO person OF the
name can be found in Washington, and it is
thought that the letter was sent by somebody
who had not heard that Fernando Wood died
some years ago.
THE funeral of Mrs AIulock Craik was an i'm
pressive event. Among those at the grave in
the Keston church-yard were Mr.. John Morley,
Mr.. Frederick Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Holman
Hunt, Messrs. F. and G.. Macmillan, Sir George
Grove, Mr.. Norman Lockyer and Miss Mary An
derson. The coffin was covered with wreaths,
some of them being contributed by Lord Jenny
son, Sir Noel Patton, Miss Anderson. Mrs. Oil
plant, Prof Hubert Herkomer, the employees Of
the Macmillans, the students of the Working